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Sunday, December 1, 2013

Menswear Outfit Three: November

It's the first of December! The first day of summer, and a very important day at our house! With Bing, Dean and Frank crooning Christmas songs in the background, our tree goes up and gets sparkly. We thought we'd use the opportunity to grab some pics of Darron's third outfit.

This sailboat shirt is from the same Style pattern as last month's shirt, 3789. This one just has a single pocket. I love the little sailboat print so much. So much that I very carefully cut this shirt so there would be enough left for another for me!

The sleeves are full length, so he has the option to dress it up or down. Darron prefers a rolled up cuff to short sleeves as a general rule. A shirt has to be a very particular style for him to like short sleeves. I am trying to find the right style and fabric to meet with his approval for a short sleeved shirt.

Once again I used the Thread Theory Jedediah pants pattern. This time it's shorts in a mango coloured canvas I picked up from Ikea a couple of years ago.

The pockets are light grey poly-cotton and the seam allowances are bound with grey bias binding. After three pairs of Jeds, I'm getting a bit more proficient at their construction. It's still one of my very favourite patterns.

We went with the cuffed hems for a casual style. I like the way it shows off the neatly bound seam allowances. It's fantastic to be able to give Darron shorts that sit at the exact length he likes. It can be a struggle to get the length right in RTW shorts when you're a tall dude.

The shirt is a lovely lightweight fabric, so to protect his modesty, as well as for casual open-shirt wearing I made a plain white tee. This one is the plain tee option from the Tread Theory Strathcona pattern, in plain white cotton jersey. Every man's wardrobe needs a plain white tee or two!

A man of many skills and talents, Darron is can juggle all kinds of things, including hand knitted Christmas characters!

I think this is my favourite of Darron's outfits so far. It's bright and fun, and suits him perfectly.

I think it is great that you are making stuff for your husband and sharing it with us. I traditionally make my husband a shirt for C'mas (well, the last two years anyway) and am planning to make him a shirt and Thread Theory Strathcona sweatshirt for this year. I have a lovely lawn for the shirt, I think your sailboat fabric is lovely too. Unfortunately I have hurt my back and can't do any cutting out at the mo, which makes me sad :-(

I love it! I think your men's and women's wardrobe posts are the ones I most look forward to reading, of all the blogs I follow! Always so colourful and right up my alley, style-wise! Now If only my husband would wear colours! ;) I don't dare sew for him yet - he only wears black, and he is very specific about what he likes!

Thank you so much Gillian! I'm so glad you're enjoying the outfits, I'm getting so much satisfaction from working on them! I was the black wearer in our relationship! You wouldn't guess from all the colour now!

I love the fact you're making a wardrobe for your husband. I want to do the same for mine, he needs to share in my sewing efforts :-) Can I ask where you got the sailboats from? They are so cute! I live in Vic too.